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Volume 10, Issue 2, May 2013

In this issue:

Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today?

A symposium co-sponsored by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Imagine that someone with all the endowments of a Milton Friedman were born in the 1960s or 1970s. Is it conceivable that such a person would develop into a ‘Milton Friedman’ like we know the actual Friedman to have been, including his academic eminence and his eloquent and influential advocacy of classical liberalism? Here leading economists address the question: Why is there no Milton Friedman today?

Testimonials

Econ Journal Watch does just what it says: watches the journals, critically, standing for scientific standards as against the odd game of solitaire that passes for academic economics these days. The astonishing thing is that no one has thought to do so before. Already in three years EJW has raised scientific standards—-if only because now the offenders know that someone is watching!